Improvement in burial-casket cases



1. s'. WATERMANf Burial-Casket Case.

Patentd June 15,1815.

UNITED JOSEPH S. WATERMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BURIAL-CASKET CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 64,5), dafed June 15, 1875; application filed October 27, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. WATERMAN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burial-Gasket Cases, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and convenient case to receive a burialcasket preparatory to the same being placed in a tomb or buried in the usual manner; and it consists of an oblong square-case, having one end left open, to admit a casket containing a body about to be buried being placed therein. The said open end is closed in a very quick and easy manner, without the aid of screws, nails, or tools. This end can be removed therefrom, when desirable, in the same expeditious manner, by means of making such end in two parts or pieces and hinging them together, so as to allow such parts to draw toward each other, or partially fold together, which withdraws the pins or dowels projecting from their edges from the holes in the inside of the open end of the said case. When the end piece is inserted in place the dowels enter the holes, permitting the two pieces to come together at their hinged edges on a straight line, when a catch, hasp, or other fastening is turned across the joint, thus securing the same together rigidly, thus inclosing the casket within the case.

Figure 1 is an end-plan view of my invention, showing the end piece in a closed position. Fi g. 2 is a vertical central section of the case, with the end piece partially removed.

A represents the case. B B are the end pieces, connected together by hinges C 0, their outer edges being provided with dowels E E, which enter holes F F in the opposite sides of the case A; or other suitable means may be used instead of the dowels-a groove for the edges of the end pieces to fit into, when closed in. G is a catch or fastener, applied to the outside of the removable end piece, and, when turned across the hinged joint, catches beneath the rim of the piece H, connecting the two parts in a rigid manner at their hinged edges, thus fastening the end in place instant-aneously.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is I As a new article of manufacture, a casketcase, A, provided with a removable end piece, consisting of two pieces, B B, hinged together by butt-hinges G 0, their outer edges being provided with dowels E E, which enter the holes F F in the end of the case A when placed in position, the said pieces B B being connected rigidly together by the catch G H, all being constructed and arranged substantially in the manner described, as and for the purposes sct forth.

JOSEPH S. WVATEEMAN.

Witnesses:

SYLvENUs WALKER, SAMUEL R. MOCREADY. 

